Nursing the Desire to Collect Vintage Barbie Dolls
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Holiday™ Barbie® Doll Sale Price: $26.99 Average Rating:   |
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The 2008 Holiday Barbie shimmers in a silvery creation designed to resemble a snowflake. Her chandelier earrings add the perfect elegant yet festive touch to the 20th anniversary Holiday Barbie. Barbie collectors and girls ages 6 and up alike will appreciate the beauty of this doll, with her thick lashes, painted red lips, extravagantly curled blonde hair, and a stand so she can be displayed and admired by all... |
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Barbie Twilight Bella Doll Sale Price: $23.45 Average Rating: |
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She's a vampire's girl. This Pink Label Barbie Doll presents Bella Swan, an 11 1/2-inch tall doll inspired by the blockbuster movie Twilight. Bella is all dressed up to meet her beau, come what may. Add her and the Edward Cullen Barbie Doll to your collection! Edward Cullen Doll sold separately... |
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Barbie Doll & Denim Fashion Set Sale Price: $12.31 Average Rating: |
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Girls and Barbie doll love beautiful boutique fashions to mix and match, head to toe, for oh so many occasions! Outfits include: Denim dress accented with a pink ribbon around the waist, sleeveless plaid designed top with matching jeans, short sleeve top decorated with flower prints with a matching pink skirt... |
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Barbie Camping Family Stacie & Kelly Dolls Sale Price: $14.35 Average Rating: |
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Barbie Camping family Stacie and Kelly Dolls By Mattel. Family and friends love to join Barbie on camping adventure and bring their favorite outdoor hobbies and activities! Collect Barbie, Kelly, Skipper and Ken dolls, each include a favorite camping accessory and individual fashion and style... |
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Barbie In a Mermaid Tale Merliah Doll Sale Price: $12.50 Average Rating:  |
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BARBIE® IN A MERMAID TALETM MERLIAHTM Doll From the movie, Barbie in A Mermaid TaleTM, MerliahTM has a beautiful and unique transformation. She is a cool teenager from Malibu, but when you pull her hood down-surprise-she is secretly a mermaid! Just detach from velcro and pull down for transformation... |
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Barbie Collector Mad Men Collection Don Draper Doll Sale Price: $74.99 |
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AMC's acclaimed series Mad Men looks at the world of advertising in the 1960s - the men of Madison Avenue who create the ad campaigns that will shape society, the lives they lead, and the lives they touch... |
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Barbie Twilight Edward Doll Sale Price: $14.99 Average Rating: |
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Part of the Pink Labels Collection, Stephenie Meyer's Twilight tells the tale of teenage romance between mortal Bella Swan, and the intriguing and dazzlingly beautiful vampire, Edward Cullen. The #1 New York Times Best seller and hugely popular movie has left its mark! |
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Barbie Twilight New Moon Jacob Doll Sale Price: $18.99 Average Rating: |
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Based on the best-selling book series by Stephenie Meyer! The phenomenon continues with this stunning doll, created in the image of Taylor Lautner, who portrays the handsome and protective werewolf Jacob Black... |
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Barbie Glam Vacation House Sale Price: $33.50 Average Rating: |
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BARBIE® Glam Vacation House: Barbie® doll's fabulously glam vacation house is the ultimate in pinktastic play! Features 2 stories and 6 areas of glam-o-rama play including living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, patio, and breakfast bar... |
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Barbie Fashionistas Glam Doll Sale Price: $10.99 Average Rating: |
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Which FashionistasTM friend are you? Each doll in this collection has a slightly different style, but they're all poseable and super chic! Create more than 100 poses for each one! The Cute doll is totally trendy in a colorful miniskirt, shiny blue boots, and a playful purse... |
It's not everyone who will have a love for Barbie dolls much less have a desire to collect vintage Barbie dolls. Most of the people who collect vintage Barbie dolls are the same women who played with these dolls when they were young, and collectors of such things as dolls.
To the not inconsiderable surprise of many people, vintage Barbie dolls are a huge collectorâ??s item and can fetch a large sum of money in many cases for a well preserved doll. This was well delineated in the recent September 2006 auction of vintage Barbie dolls by a Dutch mother and daughter who had in their collection about 4,000 dolls.
These beautiful vintage Barbie dolls sometimes can start life out as being seasonal gifts or the introduction to a brand new line of dolls. The main items that will separate these Barbie dolls out from the rest of the pack are the looks these dolls have. The modern Barbie doll is dressed in sleek and trendy clothes that you will see on your teenage daughter. Her eyes will have a forward look that is somewhat rounded.
The vintage Barbie dolls on the other hand have an elongated eye shape. This shape is reminiscent of how women in the 40s to 60s period highlighted their eyes. The entire look which you will find in these Barbie dolls portrays a look of an elegant woman. The clothes that you will find being worn by these vintage Barbie dolls is also designed to mimic the clothes which women in those times wore.
You can find these vintage Barbie dolls in ones like that of the Silkstone Barbies. These Barbie dolls are dressed in the height of fashion from that era. Their eyes are also similar to the original Barbie dolls which were made by Mattel in the beginning. You can also find gift sets which have beautiful reproductions of different vintage Barbie dolls.
One of the vintage Barbie dolls that you will be able to buy is that of a Barbie Learns to Cook doll. This doll is part of the Barbie Picnic Set doll. Another Barbie doll that can be found in this vintage set of Barbie dolls is that of Barbie doll that is dressed in a 60s Twist and Turn style. This doll is dressed in the height of fashion from this swinging period.
For many people who collect Barbie dolls these vintage Barbie dolls are great additions to their collection. For these people it does not matter if the dolls are reproduction Barbie vintage dolls or actual dolls from that period. When you look at all of these vintage Barbie dolls you will see many that you will love to have in your collection. Their great clothes and sophisticated air places these vintage Barbie dolls as must have items for all collectors.
Muna wa Wanjiru is a Web Administrator and Has Been Researching and Reporting on Barbie for Years. For More Information on Vintage Barbie Dolls, Visit His Site at Vintage Barbie Dolls
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